I’ve been contemplating posting this up, but seeing it yet again online convinces me that it’s too cool not to post:
A few years ago, I never would have thought I’d enjoy listening to “pop” music. I suppose being a town DJ had a long-lasting impression on me.
Of course, pop is only a minor part of my music taste. Remixing is awesome.
According to my calendar, it’s been four days since I’ve had my ear surgery. Although I didn’t anticipate that I’d need to, I took both Thursday and Friday off from school. I wouldn’t have been much of a productive student anyway; this experience has taken me for a ride.
As of now, I’m not feeling too well. I cannot balance well, I have zero ability to hear out of my right ear, I’ve lost my ability to taste much of anything, and I cannot concentrate. The first two symptoms, I imagine, are from the nature of the surgery itself. I believe the last two are side-effects from the anesthetics I was on during the procedure.
My entire body feels odd – thrown off course. As I tried to go to sleep two nights ago, I could not shut off my brain. Thoughts, or rather, fragments of thoughts, kept flying through. It’s terrifying to lose control like that, and I certainly hope these feelings wear off soon. I miss my body and my mind.
It’s unfortunate that the timing of this procedure and my lack of preparedness has thrown my New Year’s Resolution Experiment off course. To catch everyone up, I resolved to make twelve monthly resolutions rather than one large yearly resolution. February’s goal was to treat my body better, which I did. I was on a good course and I plan to continue it once I’m allowed to exercise physically again.
Coincidentally, it’s supposed to take me about a month to heal from my operation. I’ve decided to dedicate March to healing. I’m going to be absolutely religious about doing everything I can to help my body heal. This means continuing in a more healthy lifestyle, but unfortunately, taking it easy when it comes to physical activity.
March is shaping up to be a huge month for me. I’ll be healing from my surgery, I have a DJ event lined up, and I’m expecting news from my colleges soon. As always, I’ll keep you posted.
Matt and I have nailed the Dover DJ business. Friday night’s gig was perfect; all remaining issues with our setup have been resolved. Pre-cuing works flawlessly with Djay 2 and Mac OS X Leopard, and our speaker setup was enhanced by removing our oldest speakers, allowing the better speakers to be louder.
January 11.
I love this job.
Matt and I have got ourselves another DJ gig in town, on December 14th. Since the last time I’ve DJ’d, I’ve got some upgrades to my setup:
I’m really excited. It should be a fun time.
Last night, Matt (co-DJ) and I had our second gig. Everything went well, despite massive problems. The speakers were finicky again, and I couldn’t get my ad-hoc pre-cueing setup to work.
Pre-cueing is the use of multiple sound devices in order to listen to an upcoming track while the ‘main’ track plays for the crowd. That lets one makes smooth transitions between tracks. A computer’s sound card needs to support multiple tracks of audio in order for pre-cuing to work. Unfortunately, my MacBook Pro’s sound card has only two channels (left and right), not enough for pre-cueing.